pioneerspirit

Having grown up in NY and having visited museums in Europe, I was a bit disappointed when I visited. But what made it all worth while for me: was the sculpture of Camille Claudel: took my breath away! I hope it’s a standing collection.

on my way East or West, or somewhere in the middle, I have absolutely fallen in love with the land there. I don’t know what it is. I later found out it’s the least populated state of the union, even less so than Alaska. Maybe that’s it? I remember thinking that what I came away with after living in Alaska for a summer, was a sense of living in a place that was truly wild, unowned by humans (it felt like this even on so-called private property). I think that experience truly changed my brain, or at least how my neural networks are connected, especially since I grew up in NYC.

After that summer, I felt so confident reading the land, a river, tracks, plants, etc. On a mundane: orienteering and botanical keying, but also on a more spiritual level too. Like I finally belonged in my body, and on this planet.

I’d like to take my kids to WY, and see wild horses too. Will start with a family vacation, maybe eventually move there?

to visit all the Taoist temples and sacred mountains, and feel what it’s like to do qi gong in a place where people have been practicing qi gong for thousands of years. Also, to meet the other lineage holders and my teachers’s teachers. I’m waiting til the girls are older, I want them to come, and I don’t want to be away from them for 6 weeks.

I’d like to go back when they’re much older, to study for a semester, maybe do hospital rounds there, where they practice chinese medicine to the fullest extent, treat more pathologies.

I think my teacher is going next summer, I hope to be ready: financially and emotionally,

I grew up in NYC, and commuted to a magnate school neighboring “the park” (as new yorkers call it). Without it NY would be absolutely unbearable. Being a small public inner city school we didn’t have any sports fields, but we had Central Park, so I have SO many fond memories—

The way the skyline looks reflected on the reservoir at dusk, with the pinkish sunset hues in the foreground. The quintessianl NYC experience of seeing Shakespeare in the park, knowing it’s free, yet the most accomplished actors (as well as directors, set designers, etc) in the world are before you. Hanging out at the Duck pond with friends, had my first kiss there. Hanging out in the Central Park Zoo, used to be free, now it’s not. Riding the carousel, as a toddler, and a high school student. Going to concerts or demonstrations at the “Great Lawn.” The Met nestled in its border—from the Temple of Dendur exhibit, you can see the park through it’s skylights/windows. Going to the Dakota building (across from the park) after Lennon died, then later visiting Strawberry Fields.

Softball games, running for cross country, running on my own or for one of the New York Roadrunners Club races, volunteering for the NYC marathon at the finish line, volunteering for other races—drinking hot chocolate at the end in the winter with the other runners, running around the reservoir (1.5k) or along the bridle path (1.7?k), looping the whole park (6 mi), my first time twice around the reservoir (3k), my first time twice around the park.

Here’s a tip: in the summer, when the greenery is actually dense enough so that you can get lost (lose sight of buildings as landmarks) look at a lamppost—the first couple of digits will tell you what street you are near. Riverside park lampposts are the same.

It’s in a beautiful environment, lots of galleries, and arts scene, but it’s very bourg-ey, upper-crusty touristy—which admittedly has its charms.

http://www.crazyhorse.org/

http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_1000365.html

http://www.learningfamily.net/reiser/2kf/places/index.html?http://www.learningfamily.net/reiser/2kf/places/005crazyhorse/~main

family makes it worth it

I really want to see this, it’s amazing it’s just one family doing this.